We would like to thank the Sociology Department for its support of TIPS, especially Chair Tom Espenshade and Director of Graduate Studies Bob Wuthnow. We are also grateful to Viviana Zelizer for her support and help via the Cotsen Fellowship. We are also indebted to the American Sociological Association for awarding us a Teaching Enhancement Grant for the academic year 2001/2002 that has allowed us to bring in scholars from other campuses to talk to us about the scholarship of teaching and learning and other teaching related issues.

Origins of TIPS

Thanks to an initiative by Wendy Cadge and Sada Aksartova, a group of sociology graduate students met for lunch in Spring, 2000 to talk about teaching in the Sociology Department. Ann Morning, Craig Upright, Eszter Hargittai, Julian Dierkes, and Wendy Cadge were present and several others (Sada Aksartova, Marion Carter, Margarita Mooney, Nina Bandelj, and Kelly Hoffman) expressed interest but were not able to attend.
    We talked first about ways to learn about teaching and pass on information amongst grad students in our department. We came up with ideas for creating several resources. This site serves to bring together all the suggestions and keep SocGrads posted on what is being done in the department regarding teacher training. This site also serves as a resource by linking to valuable teaching resources on the Web.

Credits

Thanks to Wendy Cadge (gacadge@princeton.edu) and Sada Aksartova (sada@princeton.edu) for starting us off on this path. Wendy Cadge, Eszter Hargittai (eszter@princeton.edu) and Nina Bandelj (nbandelj@princeton.edu) are now responsible for the core contents of the program. They welcome your input! We appreciate the help of our department Chair Tom Espenshade and our Director of Graduate Studies Bob Wuthnow for their support. Thanks also go to Viviana Zelizer for her help with this initiative.
The TIPS name and Web site design are courtesy of Eszter Hargittai. Please send Eszter any suggestions for additions to this page.